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Teams
Agile 2011
Salt Lake City,UT
Don Gray
What people think and feel doesn't match what they say
People don't know where they stand with each other
Competition
Nitpicking
Challenging authority
Commitment HOW will Disown responsibility for what the team is doing
we do it? Leave decisions to team lead or select members
Know what and "Just tell me what to do"
Know Who Take responsibility for overall tasks but no the overall
Allocated results
Resources
Decisions Made Resistance
Devil's Advocate
Questioning
Opposing
Complaining
Implement- WHO People are not sure what to do, or when, or how
ation does Duplicate effort
WHAT, Things fall through the cracks
Clear processes WHEN, Contradictions
Alignment WHERE? Reinventing
Discipline Redoing
Activities clash
Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
New information is not communicated
Missed goals
Team Basics
• 5 - 9 members
• Stable membership
• Shared history
• Compelling work goal
• Interdependent work
From “The Wisdom of Teams”, Katenzback and Smith, Harper 2003, ISBN
978-006052201 pp 43 - 64
• Cross functional
• Self Organizing
Sources of Conflict
Structure
Missing or Values
Misinterpreted
Communication
Preferences
Hardened
Positions Past History
Task Interpersonal
Thomas-Conflict Mode
Mover
Direction
Challenger
Correction
Debrief Questions
What did you notice during
the exercise?